Forum user: James http://www.wisdomdude.com

What about here?
http://www.wisdomdude.com/tutorials.html

My videos have captions.
Those use captions are using 3.0.1 and earlier, so that could be the reason why.

A web-based video editor application does sound cool if...

01) It's cross-browser.
02) It's cross-platform.
03) It uses little to no server-side activity.
04) It can run online and offline.
05) It can import a variety of video formats.
06) It uses a global frame rate, bitrate, audio, resolution, etc.
07) It uses non-linear method for video editing.
08) It has a preview window.
09) It has basic effects such as fades, titles, wipes, slides, zooms, etc.
10) It plays the edited video flawlessly, no delays, no skipping.

Thanks for checking out my videos! Yeah, that does create two major drawbacks, the buffering, and the scrubbing. I've also wanted users to be able to scrub through the video at any point, but now I can't since I have less keyframes. At the same time, less keyframes means it will download the complete clip about eight times faster! That's also really important to me as well.

I could allow users to choose which format they prefer! I'll tell them the advantages and disadvantages of both, I'll need to think about this more...

I'm not using ffmpeg directly, I'm using MediaCoder, which is a free and yet powerful video converterhttp://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/
It will give you advance options for encoding your videos. It supports a LOT of video formats! I prefer using a GUI instead of command line parameters for videos. MediaCoder comes in Windows, Linux (with Wine), and Mac (with Wine). Enjoy! :)

Thanks for watching the videos! Yeah, subtitles work flawlessly with the 3.03 dev! Since then, I have NOT seen any subtitles skipped, and believe me, I've tested it and observed it hundreds of times!

FLV was 174 megs, now I'm considering switching to MP4 since it's 24 megs! These are my settings:

Container: mp4
Format: h.264
mode: Two passes!
Kbps: 1600 (Keep in mind, this is dependant on video resoluion)
FPS: 30
Audio codec: FAAC
Average bit: 160 kbps

I was wanting to use LAME MP3 audio codec, but it doesn't work in FlowPlayer, but that's ok! :)

http://www.wisdomdude.com/tutorials2.html
FLV uses 174 megabytes!

and

http://www.wisdomdude.com/tutorials4.html
MP4 uses 24 megabytes!

Watch both and compare the results! Feedback would be appreciated! :)

knaveen, different browsers give different levels of CPU usage/priority to plugins such as Flash, Java, or QuickTime. I just tested my video in different browsers, and noticed that low cpu usage/priority makes my videos skipping frames, meaning it's not getting enough CPU priority per cycle! This is true with Safari! If you're concerned about CPU usage, I would stick with lower bitrate encoding for your videos, though that normally decreases video quality!

Thanks! I used the free version of Riva Encoder to convert it to FLV. I also sampled it at 6000 kbps! It's not as bad as it sounds, because the compression is very content-dependant, and it turns it into a smaller file size! :)

Hey, that's pretty neat! Those online demos are awesome! You can't even tell if there's a Flash plugin on those demos either! Very nice, sounds are perfectly synced with no delays in the visual actions!

I would download Flowplayer v3, and play with the html example file that comes with it. It has minimum coding and setup in it, so it's easy to modify. I used that example to change the things I've wanted changed, and that's how I migrated from v2 to v3.

It would be nice to implement sound effects that are cross-browser and cross-platform! A Flash plugin that would allow me to externally load up WAV/MP3/OGG files, and use Javascript to trigger these sound effects! Sure an MP3 player comes to mind, but something much lighter in file size, and manipulate the sound's pitch, EQ, pan, looping, etc.! I've always wanted a way to use standard HTML/Javascript to trigger sounds using the Flash engine for the core! I like it when someone hovers their mouse over a button, it makes those sound effects! :P

Ok, that's my dream, anyone else?

I made subtitles for my video!http://www.wisdomdude.com/tutorials.html

Hey! flowplayer-3.0.3-dev4.swf works great! I did not see any skipping whatsoever!! I even tried it with a large video that tends to lag, and still, no skipping! Great job!! I also updated that demonstration page with flowplayer-3.0.3-dev4.swf! Thanks FlowTeam!

http://www.flowplayer.org/demos/example/index.htm

and

http://flowplayer.org/demos/basics/index.html

all work fine under IE, FireFox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera.

urlhttp://www.wisdomdude.com/tutorials2.html

If you can, please tell me if you see any numbers being skipped!

The numbers on the bottom represent the amount of seconds that have lapsed. 1 through 15 are whole seconds, and the following pattern should be displayed in this order:

1,3,5,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15

After 15, every few seconds afterwards, it goes into .5, .25, .10, and .05 second intervals. I already know the numbers for .05 aren't going to work since it's rounded off to deciseconds, but just wanted to show you that they're not being rendered at all!

This video is captured in 24 FPS, and starts at 0.0 seconds. You'll also notice that the blurred time-lapsed is about 1 to 2 seconds behind the counter, just a minor flaw. :P

What I meant was roughly 90% of the 100 subtitles will display with no problems, no delays! (The counter test I did). The remaining 10% of the subtitles will never get triggered! What really has me wondering, is why it always displays different random results!

Even if I have the events *few seconds apart* from each other, and still, most subtitles do get rendered, but some of the few subtitles will never get rendered! This is why I believe it isn't JavaScript being too slow.